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Reserving a Room at the Sharpe Refectory

Looking for a space for your meeting or event? The Chancellor’s Dining Room, Chancellor’s Annex and President’s Dining Room are available for student groups use. All require reservations are requested through the Catering Office and incur a fee to the party involved. Please call Brown Catering at 401-863-2712 for specific details on capacity and room set-up for each room.

Reserving a Table at the Entrance of the Sharpe Refectory

Get your message out by reserving a table directly inside the Sharpe Refectory’s Main Dining Room. Table reservations are available for the use of University and Student Groups. Please fill out the reservation contract and call x3-3343 or visit the Brown Dining main office on the Thayer Street side of the Sharpe Refectory to find out the availability of reservation times.

Are you looking to get your student groups message out? Brown Dining invites you to create and distribute tableslips in our dining halls. Tableslips are hard to miss when you eat lunch or dinner in the Ratty and V-Dub. Some advertise events at Brown and in Providence and others touch upon issues affecting life on campus.

Tableslipping Policies

• Size: 1/4 of the size of letter paper (8.5″ x 11″). Must be printed with black ink on white paper.
• Quantity: 160 for Sharpe Refectory; 90 for Verney-Woolley
• Students distributing tableslips must arrive during the appropriate times. Please present your Brown ID and tableslips to the cashier and let the cashier know if you plan to eat, so that your card can be swiped. Also make sure to sign in and out on the log sheet.
• Groups should make it clear to volunteers who tableslip that they must still pay for their meal if they choose to eat. (See our policy on theft.) Students choosing not to pay must exit the dining hall following their tableslipping rounds.

Distribution and Times

To help Brown Dining staff that clean the dining halls between meals, tableslipping is only allowed in the Ratty and the V-Dub during the half hour before a mealtime begins:

• Breakfast: 7:00am – 7:30am;
• Lunch: 10:30am – 10:55am;
• Dinner (Ratty): 3:30pm – 3:55pm;
• Dinner (V-Dub): 4:00pm – 4:25pm.

There is no tableslipping allowed at themed events or special meals.

Content

All tableslips must have a Brown University recognized student group name or a sponsoring University department or center on the tableslip. Tableslips cannot contain advertisements or coupons for commercial establishments. Information contained on tableslips should abide by the Principles of the Brown University Community as set forth on the Student Rights and Responsibilities section of the Office of Student Life website.